ArticleEnvironmental science and pollution research international2019
Duckweed biomarkers for identifying toxic water contaminants?
Article in Environmental science and pollution research international, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Broad-scale factors shaping the ecological niche and geographic distribution of Spirodela polyrhiza.PloS one · 2023Article
- Biodiversity of Duckweed (Lemnaceae) in Water Reservoirs of Ukraine and China Assessed by Chloroplast DNA Barcoding.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Chlorophyll Fluorescence Imaging-Based Duckweed Phenotyping to Assess Acute Phytotoxic Effects.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Return of the Lemnaceae: duckweed as a model plant system in the genomics and postgenomics era.The Plant cell · 2021Article
- Frond architecture of the rootless duckweed Wolffia globosa.BMC plant biology · 2021Article
- Mosaic Arrangement of the 5S rDNA in the Aquatic PlantFrontiers in plant science · 2021Article
- Comparative ecotoxicity of single and binary mixtures exposures of cadmium and zinc on growth and biomarkers of Lemna gibba.Ecotoxicology (London, England) · 2020Article
- Abscisic acid-enhanced starch accumulation of bioenergy crop duckweed (RSC advances · 2020Article
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Abstract
Surface or ground waters can be contaminated with numerous toxic substances. The duckweeds Lemna minor and Lemna gibba are widely used for assaying waterborne toxicity to higher plants in terms of growth inhibition and photosynthetic pigment reduction. These tests cannot, however, in themselves determine the nature of the agents responsible for toxicity. Morphological, developmental, physiological, biochemical, and genetic responses of duckweeds to exposure to toxic water contaminants constitute biomarkers of toxic effect. In principle, the very detection of these biomarkers should enable the contaminants having elicited them (and being responsible for the toxicity) to be identified. However, in practice, this is severely compromised by insufficient specificity of biomarkers for their corresponding toxicants and by the lack of documentation of biomarker/toxin relationships. The present contribution illustrates the difficulties of using known water contaminant-related duckweed biomarkers to identify toxins, and discusses possibilities for achieving this goal.
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